From owner-freebsd-hardware  Mon Nov 27  5:34:47 2000
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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
To: jhs@jhs.muc.de
Cc: swun@eSec.com.au, postmaster@freebsd.org,
	freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Avoid sending false Content-Type: ... charset= to BSD lists.
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:34:45 -0800 (PST)
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	when quoting email intothe freebsd mailing lists, you must
remove the "X-Loop: FreeBSD.org" header.  we use this header to stop
mailing loops, which plagued us till the header was added.  if an
email is sent to the list with the "X-Loop: FreeBSD.org" header, that
email will be sent to the list of bounced messages.

	would you have me remove the "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=gb2312" header or delete the "charset=gb2312" portion?  

jmb

> 
> Articles should not be sent to international FreeBSD lists with
> 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312
> It is wrong - there is no GuangBao or whatever chinese content on
> international lists, & it misleads mail reader software capable of displaying
> non latin scripts, EG  EXMH-2.1.1 (from FreeBSD-4.1.1 ports/mail/exmh2)
> to construct & displays Chinese random noise from what was intended as a
> meaningful latin fonted posting.
> 
> Perhaps postmaster@freebsd.org might add the above to the majordomo
> list description available to new subscribers (if not already included) ?
> 
> There's an example mistake below from Sam Wun, but I think this mistake
> has been made by other senders too, & I guess some receivers have until now
> just reacted: "Illegible - Delete" ?
> 
> ------- Forwarded Message
> 
[snip]
> References: <NEBBIONCAPPDEJNFIAEGCEIDCAAA.freebsd@m2mtechnology.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
[snip]
> Precedence: bulk
> 


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